Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby out of every 800 is born with a cleft palate. Uncorrected, the condition makes normal speech impossible. Rival schools in medicine and dentistry have long argued over the best time and the best way to perform surgery to help these handicapped children. Most orthodox surgeons favor operating at about 18 months-to prevent the development of bad speech habits and to ward off nose and throat diseases...
...womb . . . The womb is wet, uncomfortable, and unprotected." All in all, the first nine months are the hardest. "Mama sneezes, baby gets knocked 'unconscious.' Papa hits Mama, baby gets an engram. Junior bounces on Mama's lap, baby gets an engram. And so it goes." Besides these normal hazards, all Hubbard's patients have a pre-natal history of beatings by the father and attempted abortions by the mother. Small wonder that the child emerges punchy...
...explains how he thinks it works: in neurotics, the nerve cells are sensitive to abnormally small electric currents, so that they react oftener than they should, or else they react with abnormal severity to ordinary currents. He believes that carbon dioxide reacts in the cells to restore a more normal threshold of sensitivity...
...Expect . . ." Sperry soon learned that the U.S. has about 150 teachers' colleges, some called liberal arts colleges, some normal schools. But one fact stood out about all teacher education: "A great many of the teachers' colleges bring an inferior faculty and an inferior student body together in an inferior physical plant. And what is even more astonishing to me is that most of the people in the field take this for granted. 'Of course you can't expect a teachers' college to offer the cultural opportunities that a private liberal arts college can give...
Biggest was the labor shortage. Southern farm labor has been steadily streaming north to Chicago and Detroit for factory jobs. Most farmers cannot harvest even a normal crop without the help of out-of-area labor, much less the 11 million additional acres they will have to plant to reach Brannan's goal...